Save Article

'Wanderlust': Aniston Should Have Stayed Home

Watch a clip from "Wanderlust" starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a married couple from the big city who wind up in Elysium, an idyllic community worlds away from the hustle and bustle they're used to. Video courtesy of Universal Pictures.

By

Joe Morgenstern

February 24, 2012

So you think you've seen silly? And smarmy? And inept? Wait till you see "Wanderlust," though that's just a figure of speech; I'm not suggesting that you actually lay eyes on this naked grab for box office bucks. Naked grab is a figure of speech too. While David Wain's comedy of hippie chaos makes nudity a selling point, and a recurrent tease, its co-star, Jennifer Aniston, bares her breasts off-screen. (They're electronically blurred in a subsequent television news clip.) We are spared any searching studies of Paul Rudd's anatomy; his repressed businessman is there purely for laughs, although many of his...